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The hammer has finally dropped and 3rd party eReader applications are being updated to comply with Apple’s current rules on In App Purchases. A better man than myself would refrain from pointing out that this is exactly how I predicted things would go down. Good thing for me I’m an asshole. Apparently the New York Times has some horrible anti-Microsoft bias — and if there is someone who knows about irrational biases it’s Paul Thurrott. I’d properly deconstruct this lunacy, but I shat myself laughing about it. Thanks Paul, you fucking lunatic, you owe me a pair of pants. Well, looky here, Apple has published an updated MobileMe to iCloud transition document. Of note:
How can this be? We were assured by none other than the infallible Joshua Topolsky himself that Apple had foolishly chosen to abandon web-access. I mean, good gods an unnamed “Apple PR” person confirmed it. And if you can’t trust some random fuck at Apple who isn’t even willing to go on record, well then I don’t know what this world is coming to. At any rate, enjoy your web apps. So it seems that Gruber has updated his post to clarify his stance, including a link to Professor Bob Park of The University of Maryland and the What’s New blog. I’m glad to see that John’s not blindly parroting the idiocy of the WHO report, but it’s still infuriating to see a bogus issue like this mentioned on the same page as an actual public health issue like cigarette smoking. That said, here is an article from Glenn Fleishman (who knows more about wireless networking than most of us put together) explaining the realities of this situation. I wonder how many of the “hur dur the iPad can’t be a post-PC device if you have to activate it via a PC” crowd, such as the Tellarite will eat their words when Apple unveils OTA activation as a part of iOS 5? In other words, making blanket pronouncements about a hardware device based on its current operating system is idiocy of the highest order. So, we’re supposed to be shocked and appalled that an operating system that includes features with names such as “CoreLocation” and “Background Location Updates” keeps track of your location. I oft-times wonder if the people writing this crap even bother to attempt to think shit through before they jab the “post” button. I would love to see something that I’m calling a “prediction escrow service.” Basically it would work like this. You would register for an account. Then you could log predictions with the service, at which point they would be “locked” with a date-stamp. At any point after that you would be able to “unlock” your predictions and share them with a URL. The benefit of the service would that you could prove that you made a prediction at a specific point in the past. The obvious use case would be technology punditry, but I’m sure other uses are possible. You say there’s another app for hipster nerds to share pictures of themselves doing hipster nerd shit? yay. By the end of the event, I’m going to want to kill someone. Having played with The Daily for a day or two now, here are my initial thoughts:
Bottom line: I probably will not use The Daily, but I’m very interested in seeing where other media companies go with this format (and the accompanying subscription model). |
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